ONYCHOPHORAN

onychophoran, velvet worm, peripatus

(noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

onychophoran (plural onychophorans)

(zoology) Any of many wormlike carnivorous ecdysozoan animals of the phylum Onychophora. [from 19th c.]

Synonyms

• velvet worm

Source: Wiktionary



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13 March 2025

ACCURATE

(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”


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